Benjamin Response I completely agree with Benjamin’s assessment of mechanical reproduction. A mechanical reproduction may look virtually the same as an original,… Continue reading “Benjamin Response”…
Infringement Case- Vanilla Ice vs David Mecury/David Bowie Vanilla Ice’s 1981 hit “Ice Ice Baby” was sampled from the song Under Pressure by Queen, but did not give… Continue reading “Infringement Case- Vanilla Ice vs David Mecury/David Bowie”…
Streaming and DRM – Tala Farah Streaming impacts DRM in both positive and negative ways. The main positive impact is that there is more control having… Continue reading “Streaming and DRM – Tala Farah”…
Benjamin Response – Tala Farah After reading Benjamin’s piece, I partially agree with the statements made about mechanical reproduction. It is true that works of… Continue reading “Benjamin Response – Tala Farah”…
Intellectual Property Infringement Case – Tala Farah Who knew companies would fight over programming language? In Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc., Oracle sued Google for copyright… Continue reading “Intellectual Property Infringement Case – Tala Farah”…
Benjamin Response – Yiran Xiao In “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, Walter Benjamin defined “aura” as the uniqueness of the… Continue reading “Benjamin Response – Yiran Xiao”…
Streaming and DRM – Faith Mitchell I think streaming music, TV, and movies has positively impacted DRM, in a way that allows for work to be… Continue reading “Streaming and DRM – Faith Mitchell”…
Jai – Intellectual Copyright Infringement Case In 1999, Amazon patented the famous ‘1-click technology’ that would allow for its users to checkout online with the click… Continue reading “Jai – Intellectual Copyright Infringement Case”…
Jai – Benjamin Response Benjamin’s statement that “even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence… Continue reading “Jai – Benjamin Response”…
Streaming and DRM – Hope Mitchell I think that streaming positively impacts DRM. I think streaming services have some control over who can consume movies/TV/music and what they can… Continue reading “Streaming and DRM – Hope Mitchell”…